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It all started last spring at the Bridal Association of Brazos Valley Spring Bridal Show. Monica, her Mom, and her friend and wedding coordinator Melissa walked into our booth. We hit it off, she was sweet, excited and in love…it was written all over her face. We visited for what seemed to be close to an hour. When they left our booth, I had a strong feeling I would be hearing from her again. I did. We emailed each other over the following week, and they decided on another photographer to capture their day.
Over the past year I thought of Monica here and there…for some reason she just really stuck out in my mind and struck a chord with me.

Well earlier in January I received a very unexpected phone call from Monica…she was in a bit of a pickle and let down to say the least with her photographer; we’ll leave it at that. She wanted to find out if we were available to capture her wedding day. Well as luck may have it, we were!
A couple of weeks before their wedding we all went to dinner to discuss their wedding day and meet Will. We had a fantastic time with them and had the opportunity to get to know a lot more about each other.

Monica & Will; we are thilled and honored to have been able to share in your day with you! We wish you many years of blissful love, fabulous memories, and a lifetime of laughter together!

Much love and appreciation!
~ D & K

Here are a few of our favorites! Enjoy!

Cake – Cakes by Blondie
Flowers – Jodie Ashby of Thee and Me Weddings
DJ – Attic Productions
Reception – Brazos Cotton Exchange

© 2009 Dena Shipley Photography – Dena & Ken Shipley all rights reserved

Here we are; our 15th installment of ‘Sunday’s – A Year In Our Life’
We have been planning and beginning the early stages of buying property to build our home on. So we met with Lauren one of the real estate agents with Navasota Realty and spent the morning and afternoon looking at some homes, and property to try to get a better idea of what is available and rule out what we don’t want to have on the property and we do want. Here is a photo of one of the pieces of land we looked at courtesy of Navasota Realty and one of my favorites from one of our visits in Austin.
Enjoy and we hope you all have a fabulous week!!!

Adeus for now!
~ D & K

© 2009 Dena Shipley Photography – Dena & Ken Shipley all rights reserved

Here we are; our fourteenth installment of ‘Sunday’s – A Year In Our Life’
We had the pleasure of capturing Monica & Will’s day of love on Saturday, and the Sunday following a wedding is usually a day of rest for us, but I just couldn’t stand it! So I decided to not just download the image files off of our cards and back them up, but to also just pick one image that struck me while browsing through them. I’ll be sharing a full blog post of Monica & Will’s sneak peek in a couple of days.
Enjoy and we hope you all have a fabulous week!!!

Adeus for now!
~ D & K